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Originally published at Mt Fuji Fun Hour. You can comment here or there.
My best friend Melissa is missing. I believe she has been kidnapped and possibly killed and I have evidence that points to a culprit but the police refuse to investigate so I’m putting this up online in the hope of raising attention and forcing the issue.
Melissa Carter, born July 13, 1984. Melissa and I have been friends since she moved to the bay area for college in 2002. We met at freshman orientation and remained close even after we graduated. After an unfortunate split with a boyfriend Melissa moved in with me in 2010 and she remained my best friend and roommate until she disappeared.
On the evening of January 19th I returned home to find that our apartment had been robbed of all of Mellissa’s belongings. Her furniture, jewelry, and even her photographs had been taken from the apartment. I immediately called the police and when Melissa didn’t return home that night I tried to file a missing persons report.
The only person who could have accessed our apartment and taken Melissa’s things is Harold Steiner, our landlord. I began to suspect Mr. Steiner had ill intent toward Melissa from the moment they met. When he saw her moving in to my apartment he asked me her named and wondered allowed what “a good-looking woman like that” was doing living with me.
Soon after, Mr. Steiner began a campaign of harassment. He demanded I sign a new lease agreement that included Mellissa and raised our rent by $500 a month.
This campaign continued until Melissa disappeared. Mr. Steiner now claims to have never met Melissa and that I have been a model tenant who has never argued with him about our lease.
Most chillingly, he pointed out to the police that any roommates would have had to sign the lease agreement, which, naturally, lists only myself as a tenant.
While it seems faily clear Mr. Steiner has taken Melissa and her belongings, without evidence of his disagreements with us (stolen from the apartment along with Melissa’s things) the police could not find any evidence of Melissa being a missing person.
I have hired a private investigator and tried to contact childhood friends of Melissa through her highschool but if you have any information on Melissa or Mr. Steiner, please contact me through this blog.
I’ve lost my closest friend and I need your help to find her. Melissa Carter, age 28, disappeared on the evening of January 19th from her apartment in the lower height. While I have strong evidence pointing to a culprit, the police have been unwilling or unable to help and so I’m putting this online in hopes that you can help me find her or the evidence needed to arrest her Kidnapper, Harold Steiner.
Mr. Steiner was our Landlord at the apartment Melissa and I shared until our breakup last year. While I let Melissa keep the apartment I would occasionally visit to make sure she was doing alright. When I visited on January 19th however the locks had been changed and a new couple, Mr. and Mrs. Cartwright, claimed to have been living there for several weeks.
When I asked Mr. Steiner where Melissa was he claimed that he had never met her or myself before. Mr. Steiner had previously been involved in a long legal battle with both Melissa and myself about the terms of our lease but I returned home to find that the lease, and in fact all evidence of Melissa and my relationship, had been stolen. This lack of evidence has server Mr. Steiner well, making it all but impossible to arrest him or even file a simple missing persons report for Melissa.
Melissa and I may no longer be dating but I still consider her my closest friend. If Melissa is okay and has simply moved but doesn’t want me to know a simple note telling me she’s alright should suffice.
I’ve hired a private investigator and tried to contact Melissa’s family and friends (who have thus far not returned my calls or e-mails) just to find some evidence of Melissa that I can use to file a missing persons report. If you have any photos or paperwork of Melissa’s, perhaps from her time at UC Berkeley, that would be much appreciated. I’m also looking for any and all records on Mr. Steiner you might be able to provide.
I’ve lost my closest friend and I need your help to find her. Melissa Carter, aged 28, disappeared from her apartment on or around the night of January 19th. While I have evidence that points to a suspect police have been unwilling or unable to arrest the man, Harold Steiner, and so I’m putting this on the internet in the hopes of finding more information on Melissa’s current whereabouts or evidence leading to Mr. Steiner’s arrest.
Mr. Steiner was the landlord at the apartment that Melissa and I shared up until our breakup last year. While I had initially been very close with him he changed after I gave Melissa the apartment, demanding that she sign a new lease without my name on it and to accept a new, slightly higher, monthly rent. While I saw Melissa less and less over the next few months when I would visit she was increasingly concerned that Mr. Steiner’s insistence on a new rent might force her to move.
When I came to visit her on January 19th the locks had been changed and a new couple, Mr. and Mrs. St. John, who claimed to have been living there since the start of the month, now occupied the apartment. When I asked Mr. Steiner about this he claimed to have never met Melissa and, even more disturbingly claimed to have never met me. He showed me the St. John’s lease but could not, or would not, produce the lease for the apartment’s previous occupant.
Even more perplexingly, I returned home to find that everything I owned that referenced Melissa, both physical and digital, had been stolen from my apartment. I can’t say how Mr. Steiner managed this but his absolute calmness while claiming he’d never met Melissa or me certainly implies that he KNEW I wouldn’t be able to produce any evidence against him.
Some part of me hopes that this is all a cruel plank Melissa or Mr. Steiner are playing on me but if it is I’d appreciate a note letting me know that Melissa is safe. While the police are sympathetic to my plight the lack of physical evidence of a crime makes it difficult to file a formal missing persons report for Melissa or arrest Mr. Steiner.
I’ve hired a private investigator and tried to contact Melissa’s friends and family (to no avail, many have been unwilling to talk to me since our breakup) but any evidence of Melissa’s current whereabouts or information about Mr. Steiner that might link him to her disappearance would be very helpful.